20 Free Things You Can Do with Google Gemini

Welcome to another edition of Log AI.

In today’s update, we explore two significant developments: first, we compiled 20 free things you can now do with Google Gemini, from writing and summarising to research, planning, and image-generation; second, OpenAI‘s newly issued “code red,” signalling a renewed push to improve core performance amid rising competition.

Let’s get into the details.

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  Here's what's new today in the Log AI

• 20 Free Things You Can Do with Google Gemini

• OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race

• AI Tutorial: Free webinar on how to handle customer data with AI

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI

• ChatGPT Prompt of the day

AI NEWS

GOOGLE

20 Free Things You Can Do with Google Gemini

Gemini gives you practical tools to handle content, research, and creation in one place. It helps you turn media into text, design visuals, write, organize information, and even build simple apps. It fits into everyday work so you can produce more with less effort. Here are some things you can do with it (watch it below)

• Convert videos to text

• Convert audio to text

• Create infographics in Canvas

• Generate audio overviews

• Build simple web pages

• Create realistic images

• Run Deep Research

• Create Gems

• Use Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Slides & Sheets

• Create storybooks and quizzes

• Create marketing campaigns with Pomelli

• Use Opal for creating web apps with no code

• Use NotebookLM

• Build apps in AI Studio

• Create Google Forms and slide decks

AI AND COMPETITION

OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race.

OpenAI has issued a “code red” as Google’s Gemini gains momentum. The company is shifting attention back to strengthening ChatGPT to protect its lead in the AI market.

Details:

• Major side projects, such as ads, AI shopping tools, and the Pulse assistant, are being paused.

• The focus is now on speed, accuracy, and reliability inside ChatGPT.

• Teams are being reassigned to core development and are now working in tighter daily cycles to improve the model faster.

• Google’s rapid progress with Gemini, paired with strong product deployment, is putting pressure on OpenAI to respond quickly.

• OpenAI still holds large user numbers, but leadership views this moment as a key turning point to stay ahead.

• Commentators say the move shows how intense the AI competition has become and how fast leadership can shift.

Source

AI TUTORIAL

How to handle customer data with AI

AI breaks when the data is broken. Many teams still store customer information in different places. Good AI needs a full picture and a complete record of every customer. HubSpot’s Smart CRM webinar in December focuses on this idea. It explains why unified data changes everything and why scattered data limits every decision.

You’ll see how a connected CRM helps teams:

→ Keep every conversation, email, and record in one place

→ Give AI the proper context before it makes a decision

→ Improve forecasting with a complete customer history

→ Speed up follow-ups and reduce mistakes

→ Align sales, service, and marketing around the same information

AI TOOLS TO CHECK OUT

• Kitchen design AI: See your new kitchen in seconds from any photo.

• Nametastic AI: Generate perfect domains with AI instantly.

• Nodu AI: Create storytelling videos for product promotion.

• Viralsky AI: Use proven strategies and templates to go viral

• Anymelo AI: Create royalty-free music effortlessly.

THE LATEST IN AI

Google tests merging AI Overviews with AI Mode

Google announced it has begun testing a new feature that merges its AI Overviews with AI Mode in Search. That means users who are provided with the now-ordinary AI-generated snapshot of key information on a topic or question above their search results can choose to go deeper by asking follow-up questions in a conversational interface.

OpenAI slammed for app suggestions that looked like ads

People are scared that ads have arrived, even for paid customers. OpenAI, however, clarified that the app suggestion was not an advertisement but instead a poor attempt to integrate an app-discovery feature into conversations.

CHATGPT PROMPT OF THE DAY

"Act like an elite AI systems architect and prompt engineer specializing in designing autonomous AI agents.

Your objective is to help the user generate a **short but powerful prompt** that can be reused to quickly create AI agents with clear roles, behaviors, and goals.

Task: Produce a concise, ready-to-paste prompt that reliably creates well-defined AI agents.

Requirements:

1) The prompt must clearly instruct ChatGPT to adopt a specific agent identity.

2) The prompt must define an objective, operating constraints, and expected outputs of the agent.

3) The prompt must stay short, simple, and reusable across many agent types.

4) The prompt must avoid ambiguity and ensure consistent agent performance.

Context:

The user wants “a short prompt for creating AI agents.” Your job is to craft an upgraded meta-prompt that they can copy and edit anytime they want to create a new agent. The result should be flexible enough for any domain (business, productivity, creative work, technical tasks) but structured enough to produce predictable, high-quality AI agents.

Constraints:

- Format: Short paragraphs + 3–5 bullets where helpful.

- Style: Clear, direct, instructional.

- Scope: Include identity, objective, constraints, output format; exclude examples unless essential.

- Reasoning: Break down the construction of the meta-prompt step-by-step.

- Self-check: Ensure the final upgraded prompt is easy to copy, customizable, and under ~150 words

THAT’S A WRAP!